Increasing Performance In Electric Vehicles

Automobiles have not changed much in the last 60 years. While they have gotten faster, safer, and more efficient, there have not been any major changes in the technology used since the first cars were brought to market in the early 1900s. They still use an internal combustion engine, use gasoline as fuel, emit exhaust that harms the environment, require fueling up at gas stations, need oil changes, and have many moving parts, making it more likely something breaks and needs repaired. It is time to revolutionize the automotive industry and fix all of these problems and more. There is one type of car that can do that: electric cars. It is time to move to electric cars, because they have lower operating and maintenance costs, have higher performance …show more content…
One major increase is the, due to the very quick torque generation provided by electric motors, electric vehicles can achieve very fast accelerations, with some cars being competitive with traditional sports cars (Sadek). Electric vehicles also have drastically reduced noise generation compared to gasoline vehicles (Sadek). This reduced noise can actually help reduce traffic noise in major cities, since the majority of the noise is generated by the internal combustion engines in all of the cars (Sadek). In addition to this increased performance, electric vehicles also use their energy much more efficiently than gasoline vehicles (Sadek). Gasoline vehicles use about 18% of the energy in gasoline to move the car; the rest is lost and wasted, the biggest cause being heat and friction (Sadek). In electric vehicles, about 72% of the energy in the batteries is used to move the car, which is about 54% more than in a gasoline car (Sadek). When the efficiency in producing the gasoline and electricity is taken into account, electric loses a portion of its lead, becoming only about 12% more efficient than gasoline (Sadek). However, this problem can and will be solved eventually, as electricity production increases in efficiency, along with more and more environmentally …show more content…
One of the largest contributors to this is transportation, primarily gasoline-fueled cars. Electric cars would eliminate a significant portion of air pollution and greenhouse gas production. They also have numerous other benefits, such as reduced operating and maintenance costs, along with being more efficient and better performing than gas powered cars. Society needs to take electric cars seriously as an alternative, and include them in their search for their next car. They might find that it would be the perfect solution to a multitude of problems, the most important of which is the safety of the planet for the generations to